Posted: August 12th, 2010 | Author: jriggs | Filed under: iphone | 11 Comments »
As a replacement to the now defunct SimplifyMedia, I have been using, and highly recommend audiogalaxy to stream any mp3 or .m4a (DRM free) to my smart phone. This app can run on the iPhone/ iPad/iPodTouch or any Android device. The server application (running on the computer with your music files) can be installed on any Windows or Mac OS X 10.5 or greater machine.
Here’s a quick run down for comparison.
Audiogalaxy Pros:
- Quickly loads large library (15k songs) on iPhone – tested on 3G
- Has a web interface that allows you to play your library on an internet connected PC/MAC/Linux box
- Allows you you shuffle entire library
- Low processor footprint on server
- Works over 3g or WiFi
- Actively Developed – New features regularly added
- Free!
Audiogalaxy Cons:
- Does not buffer more than one song, so there is a delay between the songs
- No support for .flac or .ogg
- I couldn’t import my iTunes playlists
Minor Gripes:
- Can’t scrobble to last.fm
- No way to add friends or share library
That’s it! Overall, I find audiogalaxy to be the best software that streams your home music library to your smart phone.
Audiogalaxy Web Interface
Posted: June 1st, 2010 | Author: jriggs | Filed under: professional, web | 2 Comments »
GA informing me of a *slight* traffic increase
Recently I was lucky enough to have a link I submitted to reddit (comment page) make it to the site’s front page. While my link was originally posted to the sub-reddit r/programming, it quickly gained popularity and was on the main page for nearly 24 hours.
Here’s a look at the raw access log, I’ve included the entire month to show how drastic the increase (and subsequent decrease) in traffic was. The link was submitted on May 24th. The image itself was just over 171 KB, quite a bit of bandwidth was used, fortunately, my host allows 500GB transfer per month.
Here we can see the numbers leading up to the surge
And the corresponding numbers (of the peak day) from Google Analytics which line up very well.
And now, a closer look at the redditors themselves:
Browsers Used
No surprise: Firefox is the preferred browser among the tech crowd. More interesting in my opinion is Chrome beating out IE almost 4 to 1.
Operating Systems:
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Bonus – a few of the sites that picked up the link shortly after it appeared on Reddit’s frontpage:
Those are the numbers that were most interesting to me. Did I leave anything out? Leave me a comment and I will add it if possible, thanks.
Posted: February 11th, 2010 | Author: jriggs | Filed under: firefox, web | 3 Comments »
There must be a bug in Firefox 3.5.7 that is keeping it from clearing you recent history. I was able to clear this data using CCleaner (mac users can do the same with Clean App). Just make sure to close down Firefox before running CCleaner. Then double check that the checkboxes in the ‘Application’ tab are set as follows:
